https://www.circleid.com/blogs/ Postings from on CircleID en Copyright 2026, unless where otherwise noted. 2026-04-10T19:13:00+00:00 https://circleid.com/postswrong_on_the_exaflood_wrong_on_network_neutrality https://circleid.com/postswrong_on_the_exaflood_wrong_on_network_neutrality More...]]> 2026-04-10T12:13:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20090921_making_network_neutrality_sustainable_revisited https://circleid.com/posts20090921_making_network_neutrality_sustainable_revisited announced that the FCC's Network Neutrality Proceeding is entering the rule-making stage. This is a historic milestone, worth celebrating, but the milestone is on a road with hairpin turns. If you look directly above us, you can see we're in almost exactly the same place we used to be when the pro-competition provisions of the 1996 Telecom Act were intact and the distinction between telecommunications service and information service was meaningful, but now we are a lot lower. More...]]> 2026-04-10T12:13:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20090917_verizon_throws_18_states_under_progress_train https://circleid.com/posts20090917_verizon_throws_18_states_under_progress_train More...]]> 2026-04-10T12:13:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20090625_questions_wsj_claims_of_iran_dpi https://circleid.com/posts20090625_questions_wsj_claims_of_iran_dpi Wall Street Journal's dubious story about Iran's use of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) for spying, censorship and disinformation appears in a highly charged atmosphere. The US Republican right wing wants the US to talk tougher to Iran, to bomb-bomb-bomb, invade, or commit "regime change." More questions than mine have surfaced about the WSJ's story... More...]]> 2026-04-10T12:13:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/postsits_official_value_moving_to_edge https://circleid.com/postsits_official_value_moving_to_edge saying [PDF] what I've been saying since 1997, that the apps are separating from the network, and this is driving a wave of "explosive innovation." More...]]> 2026-04-10T12:13:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20090527_crawford_likes_aussie_utility_network https://circleid.com/posts20090527_crawford_likes_aussie_utility_network is reported to be favorably inclined towards a U.S. network much like Australia's recently announced $33B broadband plan. Of course, the U.S. is some 15 times bigger than Australia, and that'd make the price tag closer to $500B by straight multiplication. But the U.S. would get a fiber network done right... More...]]> 2026-04-10T12:13:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20090421_twc_does_the_right_thing_again https://circleid.com/posts20090421_twc_does_the_right_thing_again here.] It was quite a stuff-storm, but to TWC's credit, they put their finger up, felt the howling gale, and changed course right away. This is in marked contrast to their larger competitor, Comcast... More...]]> 2026-04-10T12:13:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20090217_crtc_dumb_when_they_want_to_be https://circleid.com/posts20090217_crtc_dumb_when_they_want_to_be David Akin pointed me to this article in the Ottawa Citizen which describes CRTC initiatives aimed at getting the cablecos to pay into a fund that would support, "the creation of high-quality, high-cost, scripted Canadian broadcasting content in the new media." In it, Ken Engelhart, senior vice-president of regulatory [affairs?] for Rogers Corp. is quoted saying... More...]]> 2026-04-10T12:13:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20090215_fixing_internet_break_worse_than_broken_now https://circleid.com/posts20090215_fixing_internet_break_worse_than_broken_now Willis Alan Ramsey, who wrote "Muskrat Love," recorded one and only one studio album. The cognoscenti of country think it's a gem, an all time top ten. There's an apocryphal story that when Ramsey was pushed to make another record he allegedly retorted, "What's wrong with the first one?" We who use the Internet every day risk losing sight of what a miracle it is, and the openness that keeps it so miraculous... We also lose sight of the fact that even as the Internet's miracles occur, it's almost always broken or malfunctioning or threatening or worse in many places along the line. More...]]> 2026-04-10T12:13:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20090202_benkler_analyzes_broadband_stimulus_bills https://circleid.com/posts20090202_benkler_analyzes_broadband_stimulus_bills Nice work. To summarize Yochai's summary: House: $6 Billion, split between Commerce and Agriculture Depts., requires adherence to FCC's Four Internet Principles (the Martin FCC Version); Senate: $9 Billion, via Commerce Department's NTIA, requires less specific "interconnection and nondiscrimination." How much broadband can a Billion buy? More...]]> 2026-04-10T12:13:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20081228_meanings_of_network_neutrality https://circleid.com/posts20081228_meanings_of_network_neutrality posted a nice taxonomy of the several meanings people take when they use the term Network Neutrality, briefly: End-to-End Design; Nonexclusionary Business Practice; Content Nondiscrimination ... I've been developing a taxonomy of issues that interact with and are bound with Network Neutrality. So far there are six items... More...]]> 2026-04-10T12:13:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20081216_what_if_wrong_about_edge_caching https://circleid.com/posts20081216_what_if_wrong_about_edge_caching sums up yesterday's Wall Street Journal piece on Google. To summarize his summary: Google's edge caching isn't new or evil; Lessig didn't shift gears on NN; Microsoft and Yahoo have been off the NN bandwagon since 2006; The Obama team still supports NN; Amazon's Kindle support is consistent with its NN support. Yet... yet... More...]]> 2026-04-10T12:13:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20081215_bogus_wsj_story_on_net_neutrality https://circleid.com/posts20081215_bogus_wsj_story_on_net_neutrality More...]]> 2026-04-10T12:13:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20081114_fiber_optics_thinking_it_through https://circleid.com/posts20081114_fiber_optics_thinking_it_through More...]]> 2026-04-10T12:13:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20081023_beyond_white_spaces https://circleid.com/posts20081023_beyond_white_spaces column that envisioned the uses of digital wireless in the home. I compared two nascent, much-touted wireless protocols, Bluetooth and HomeRF. I completely, totally, slippery-dash missed Wi-Fi. There had been a public 802.11 spec since 1997. The first 802.11b devices, which made Wi-Fi popular, burst onto the scene in early 2000, just a few short months after my clueless insights. Today HomeRF is forgotten, Bluetooth is for ugly ear jewelry and Wi-Fi rulz... More...]]> 2026-04-10T12:13:00-07:00